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'Bald men are easy catches!,' suggests a magazine article on how to find a husband, published in 1958

Do you find yourself carrying hatboxes around, mining the obituaries pages of newspapers for eligible widowers and starting whispering campaigns about how desirable you are? If not, and you are minus a spouse, therein lie the reasons why, according to a 1958 article from McCall’s magazine. Published in the (now defunct) women’s monthly 60 years ago, an article listing 129 ways to get a husband has resurfaced, providing both a window into history and, perhaps more crucially, something utterly hilarious for us to wring our hands at/take notes from.

Collated by a team of 16 writers who, presumably, knew a thing or two about ensnaring errant chaps, pointers include ‘get a job demonstrating fishing...